The evolution and organization of the university clinic / by Simon Flexner.

  • Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946.
Date:
1939
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Credit: The evolution and organization of the university clinic / by Simon Flexner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sink his own personality in that of the pupils whose published discoveries are those of the master without his name. Purkinje was not provided with a university labora¬ tory until 1842. But the laboratory in a private house had already become the wedge by means of which experimental science was to be extended in Germany, and in other countries. Buchheim, the pharmacologist and teacher of Schmiedeberg, opened a laboratory in his own house in Dorpat with his private means in 1849. Godlee tells us that after each of Lister’s migra¬ tions, one room in his house was at once devoted to the purposes of a laboratory. When Ehrlich in 1887, after Frerichs’s death and Gerhardt’s succession, was deprived of a laboratory, he fitted up a room in his house in which he continued his studies and from which Robert Koch rescued him in 1890. Koch him¬ self carried out his epochal studies on anthrax and on wound infection in his house in Wollstein, the re¬ searches which led, through Cohnheim’s influence, to appointment to the Imperial Health Department (Kaiserliches Gesundheitsamt) in Berlin in 1880. But for us at this time, the most important home labora¬ tory was that of Ludwig Traubc in which were begun those experimental investigations of clinical problems destined to influence the developments taking place in Oxford to-day. It was natural that laboratories for the fundamental sciences should be developed before those of the clinic were established. Sixty years were to elapse between Liebig’s and Purkinje’s beginnings and the opening of the investigator-student laboratory in von Ziemsscn’s clinic in Munich in 1884. In the meantime the modern